Like most of us I was puzzled about the end of Lost. It kind of lefts us with more questions than answers. So I went to read the comments on the recap page of the last episode of the series and found that one from jsgl80:
The finale was beautiful and unexpected. In my opinion they all had died (some in the island, as we could see, and others off it, which we did not see but were told by Christian: some died long after jack) and were reborn to the side-life (remember Hurley was another guardian of the island assisted by Ben). As the mother of Jacob and Adam said: the light was life-death-and rebirth. The side-line story was in many ways different: before they even got on the plane Jack had married and had a son, Sawyer was a policeman, Ben was a teacher, etc. So for me, the whole thing had to do with the search for perfection and something like trying to reach the Nirvana ,going through as many life spans as necessary (remember Jacob saying ‘everything ends just once, but the things before that end are just progress’). Most of them got what they needed: love, company, redemption, resignation, etc., and so were allowed to a new level of existence, provided they realized of it and wanted it. The exception was Ben, who had not experienced love as the others did and still ‘had to work out some things’. That is why he decided to stay. It also underscores the relevance of one’s time or generation (a sense of family as the people we spend our time with), for they were important for one another at that time. In sum, their time in the island had happened a long time ago.
I like the explanation of jsgl80. Now I can rest and let the series go. Thank you for 6 years of a great show. Even if most of the time I didn’t know where all this was going. Anyway like George Lucas wrote in a letter to Lost creators, even him didn’t know shit about where Star Wars was going at the time.
It was a short season compare to the previous three that were counting 22 episodes each. Season 4 of Lost had only 13 (14 if you count the last episode is 1.5 hours), but it was the best season of all.
The fact the story was juggling between a near future rather than a distant past for each of the main characters was particularly appealing. The last three episodes called “There’s No Place Like Home” were fantastic.
I’m looking for the next two seasons before the grand finally.
From Wikipedia:
On May 7, 2007, ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson announced that Lost will end during the 2009–2010 season with a “highly anticipated and shocking finale.” “We felt that this was the only way to give Lost a proper creative conclusion,” McPherson said. Beginning with the 2007–2008 television season, the final 48 episodes of Lost would have been aired as three seasons with 16 episodes each, with Lost concluding in its sixth season. Due to the writers strike, the fourth season will have 14 episodes, and Seasons 5 and 6 will have 17 episodes each.
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